Laboratory

Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-Being

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Formal and Statistical Approaches to the Study of Inequalities in Mortality

Ugofilippo Basellini, Esther Dorothea Denecke, Ana Cristina Gómez Ugarte Valerio, Roland Rau, Emilio Zagheni; in Collaboration with Jose' Manuel Aburto (University of Oxford, United Kingdom), Carlo Giovanni Camarda (French National Institute for Demographic Studies, France), Pavel Grigoriev (Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany), Fanny Janssen (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, Netherlands)

In this project, we focus on the development of new formal relationships and methodologies to investigate demographic change across countries and over time, with a specific focus on inequalities in mortality, length of life, and availability of kinship resources.  Detailed Description

Publications

Aburto, J. M.; Basellini, U.; Baudisch, A.; Villavicencio, F.:

Drewnowski’s index to measure lifespan variation: revisiting the Gini coefficient of the life table

Theoretical Population Biology 148, 1–10. (2022)    

Nigri, A.; Aburto, J. M.; Basellini, U.; Bonetti, M.:

Evaluation of age-specific causes of death in the context of the Italian longevity transition

Scientific Reports 12:22624, 1–10. (2022)    

Aburto, J. M.; Villavicencio, F.; Basellini, U.; Kjærgaard, S.; Vaupel, J. W.:

Dynamics of life expectancy and life span equality

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117:10, 5250–5259. (2020)